The official Uddeholm Swedish Rally Thread

Some pictures from Friday, Bjälverud 1 & 2:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t2008019-3.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t2008009-1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t2008041-1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...lyt2008054.jpg

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Some pictures from today, Hagfors 1 & 2:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...lyt2008004.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t2008010-1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t2008024-1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t2008031-2.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...t2008042-2.jpg


More can be found here: http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y140/ViktorL/

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Originally Posted by Mauri A

But can you organize a WRC rally without going to bankcrupty?

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Good question, Mauri! 10 points to you for comic performance!

But to the actual facts...Rally Norway was very well organized, and it actually never went bankrupt. (It just lost a lot of money...)

Conditions were really really bad.....

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Originally Posted by Iskald

Good question, Mauri! 10 points to you for comic performance!

But to the actual facts...Rally Norway was very well organized, and it actually never went bankrupt. (It just lost a lot of money...)

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Yes, Rally Norway had very big budget and paid for everything. But it was very nice rally.

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Originally Posted by RS

I must say I am rather disappointed with how Sweden has turned out.

It is normally one of the rallies with a strong entry list and close battles, but all the gaps in the top 8 are huge now, Wilslow is well in the points, Gardemeister is 9 minutes off the pace and still in the points and there is still a day to go.

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Yes, but it is one of the most interesting events last year. Lot of interesting things, there are big gaps, but everybody can make puncture or go off road.

Very nice photos Viktory :up:

Nice effort done by norwegian fans btw. :)

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Originally Posted by Iskald

An that is a real scandal. 110 teams has come to Karlstad and have prepared to drive two championship round. Each team has already used lots of money on their preparations, travel and accomodation. And for what...?

You don`t need to go to Lapland to find proper winter in Norway btw. I was skiing yesterday, 25 kms from Oslo. Snowdepth was about 1 metre...

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They were thinking about cancel this event a week ago, but they still hoped that weather would be better...

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Originally Posted by A.F.F.

Does Al-Quassimy know that you don't have to stop on every stage in WRC ?

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I think he has read this forum, because he done last stage WITHOUT any crash :eek: I think SS 14 was only one today, when he was for whole time on the road (except SS 12, which was cancelled).

Khalid Al Qassimi:

On Thursday, I was talking about the Swedish rally fans and how enthusiastic they are. Today, I met them for real and they kept me in the rally.

I slid wide on a tightening corner of the first stage and went off the road and into a ditch. We were around six feet lower than the road and I thought my rally was over, for sure. But before the car had even come to a halt, a crowd of huge Swedish fans was gathered around the car and started pushing us back towards the road. Or at least, I thought they were pushing!

They literally lifted the car back up onto the road so that we could continue! It was absolutely unbelievable. There were a couple of times when it was steep that I had to start the engine and use it to help them - help them! - but it was them who got me back. And without their help, my rally would have finished there and then.

Another group did exactly the same later on in the day, when I slid off again. The conditions were very tricky for me with almost no experience of snow and ice and again, it was thanks to the fans that we were able to continue.

When you're in the car and the adrenalin is flowing, you don't always remember to thank those who help you but I want to say an enormous thank you to everyone who helped us today. Again, it is this kind of spirit that makes the WRC such an amazing sport and I hope that one day, I may be able to repay their efforts. Offering them some Abu Dhabi hospitality would be nice, if that were possible...